A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out In the early 1990’s, National Woman’s Missionary Union had a vision for assisting women trapped in the cycle of poverty – offering a hand up, not a hand out. With that vision and five successful national pilot sites, CWJC of North Carolina established two sites in 1998 and since that time has increased to fourteen sites as of May 2009 as well as one international site.

Throughout North Carolina in various settings and types of communities, CWJC is bringing hope for a brighter future: Empowering women in need by providing resources to help them move from dependency to self-sufficiency. Along with Bible study, volunteer mentors are a critical part of the program.

Specialized training equips volunteers to offer:

• One-on-one support and encouragement
• Assistance accessing job training and educational resources
• Life skills guidance in areas such as child care, transportation, housing, and other daily needs.

Participants gain:

• Practical life skills
• Self-respect as they provide for themselves and their children
• Assurance in the knowledge that God loves them. In nearly every aspect of life, CWJC and CMJC offer help and hope that is changing lives!

 CWJC and CMJC sites across the country are bound together by key elements found at each site:

• A mentor for every client
• Covenant between client and mentor
• Bible study
• Networking needs assessment of communities and clients
• An advisory council
• Certification training
• Evaluation

 Thank you!

Wonderful friends. Thank you seems an inadequate expression for the many ways you have blessed Triad Ladder of Hope Ministry. Your collection of the items we needed blessed us and many women in need. We were overwhelmed with your out pouring of love through the numerous items you collected at Missions Extravaganza for women who are victims of human trafficking. I know each woman who receives one of the bags; with the items she needs, will be blessed by your gracious love for her.

We will be using these bags in two different but similar ways to affect women caught in human trafficking.

The first use will be to give the bags to rescued women.  This often happens at the location where the women are rescued and in many cases the items in the bags are the only possessions the women may have.

The other way we plan to us the bags is through what we are calling a bag project.  We are excited about this project and the potential it has to rescue women in sex trafficking.  With the bag project we will go into the strip clubs, massage parlors and other places where trafficking is prevalent and give a bag to a potential victim of trafficking.  Each bag will contain items you collected and information on sex trafficking with the hot-line number for them to call.

Please know that you have been a huge blessing to Triad Ladder of Hope and to the many women in need of your love and Help.

Sandra Johnson and Danielle Mitchel